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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by Antonio Vázquez <av...@winsoftsystems.com> on 2003/01/30 12:52:06 UTC
Re: what is catalina?..
Catalina is the name of the Java class of Tomcat from version 4.0
When you start tomcat, really you are starting catalina class;
Antonio,
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From: Ramkumar Krishnan
To: Tomcat Users List
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 12:35 PM
Subject: what is catalina?..
Hi,
I am a newbie to tomcat and catalina?..what is catalina?..what is the
use of it?..
thanks,
Ramkumar
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Re: what is catalina?..
Posted by Wilson Snook <op...@planman91.fsnet.co.uk>.
I'd just like to say thank you to you for posting here. It's immensely
useful for a newbie like me.
Wilson
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From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <cr...@apache.org>
To: "Tomcat Users List" <to...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: what is catalina?..
>
>
> On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Bill Barker wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 22:44:14 -0800
> > From: Bill Barker <wb...@wilshire.com>
> > Reply-To: Tomcat Users List <to...@jakarta.apache.org>
> > To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
> > Subject: Re: what is catalina?..
> >
> > Catalina is also the name of a small island off the coast of southern
> > California. I, personally, have no idea why this was chosen as a
package
> > name (I haven't been hanging out here that long). Especially since the
> > principal author doesn't live in So. CA.
> >
>
> Bill's right about "Jakarta". Using "Catalina" was my idea, because I
> wrote most of the original code that became it. The reasons are mundane,
> but here they are for the record:
>
> * Even though I don't live in Southern CA, I've always liked
> what I've read and seen of Catalina Island.
>
> * One of the towns on the island is Avalon, and we were (at the
> beginning) considering using the Avalon Framework
> (http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/) for the internal architecture.
> It would have been a cute tie-in, but alas it didn't happen
> that way.
>
> * When I'm coding, I regularly have one or more cats wandering
> around my lap and adding to the whitespace when they don't
> think I put enough (you don't need fingers to press the space bar :-).
>
> Another "code name" you'll hear in the Tomcat world is Jasper -- that's
> the name of the JSP page compiler part of Tomcat. That name was carried
> over from even before my time, but I'm sure it probabbly came from the
> alliteration (JaSPer).
>
> Craig McClanahan
>
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